Mel & Kim - they had The X Factor

My deluxe edition of FLM came today - but I'm a little disappointed they haven't used the original album versions of Showing Out, Respectable and FLM - they've replaced them with the single edits (the Showing Out 7" edit is dreadful). Looks like I'll be keeping my original FLM CD. Cherry Pop usually put the 7" versions at the end and keep the album as it was. The rest is wonderful though - AWESOME CD booklet with a LOT of Kim comments.

Who else thinks the girls would've had much more success in the 90's had Mel not sadly died....they were magic to watch

Who else thinks the girls would've had much more success in the 90's had Mel not sadly died....they were magic to watch

i dont think theyd have any more success. they were a one trick pony, ok i quite like some of their material, 'showin out' was my fav, but that sound was exhausted by 90. people were fed up of s/a/w (even the fans...hence they faded).

SAW where on the slide by 1990/1991 so I dont think they would have made it that far.

They left PWL and wrote (along with Craig from Bros) what became Kim's solo album. Don't Worry, G.L.A.D. (the sequel to F.L.M!!) and Mama would've been the 5th, 6th and 7th Mel & Kim singles. I think they would've made more after that.

It's impossible to get the brilliant 7" version of Showing Out these days, unless you happen to have the original disc or else an old compilation album from the time knocking about (it was on Now 8 IIRC). The album version just drags on and on, whilst the single version used on compilations etc nowadays is a totally pointlessly remixed piece of shit that literally just sounds cut into random bits and reassmbled in no kind of order whatsoever.

Wrong...Mel & Kim, Rick, Kylie, Reynolds Girls, Bananarama, Dead or Alive, Princess and Lonnie Gordon were the best of SAW.

I will not have you slaggin' off the third most successful songwriters and producers of all time.

kylies best material was after she left s/a/w

and weve done this before...theyt are NOT the third most successful songwriters of all time, that statistic is based on 'weeks in chart' and bares no relationship to quality, nor even of sales. anyone can mass produce dross for kids then claim to be successful. NO awards, NO merit, NO respect ... for a team that supposedly spent so long in the charts thats a damning indictment of the poor quality of their material.

ps...you are the only one ive ever known that chamipons the reynolds girls, even amongst s/a/w fans....they were a complete joke.

They left PWL and wrote (along with Craig from Bros) what became Kim's solo album. Don't Worry, G.L.A.D. (the sequel to F.L.M!!) and Mama would've been the 5th, 6th and 7th Mel & Kim singles. I think they would've made more after that.

..but surely if they/she was that good kim would still be a household name with or without her sister. so no, i dont think they had the x factor and their career lasted as long as it was going too.